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Re:Google's Open Culture Collides with the Israel-Hamas War by nikolay on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @03:23PM (#38196389)
An unproportional savegery response to a savegery makes you even a bigger savage! Sorry, but the world is not deaf and blind! Keep supporting the genocide and thus you're digging Israel into a deeper hole! The young people are all against Israel's genocidal apartheid - and these are the future voters! Israel with all its high-tech cannot manipulate the narrative!
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Re:Google's Open Culture Collides with the Israel-Hamas War by nailer on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @03:29PM (#38196489)
> Keep supporting the genocide

Israel has 2.1M arabs, the descendents of the arabs that stayed after 1948 when arab states declared war on Israel.

Israeli arabs have better lives than in any Arab state. They can vote for their own leaders, be elected to parliament, be of a different sect of Islam without concern for their safety, leave Islam without concern for their safety, be gay without concern for their safety, and serve in the IDF.

Arabs in Qatar and the UAE and west bank and Gaza wish they had the freedoms of Arabs in Israel.

Ask any Jewish person in Tel Aviv and they'll tell you the best Hummus in town is actually not in Tel Aviv, it's at Abu Hassan in Yafo (the smaller one near the coast).

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Re:Google's Open Culture Collides with the Israel-Hamas War by nikolay on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @06:58PM (#38199008)
That's absolutely false. Arabs in Israel do not have the same rights as Israeli Jews and I'm not talking about Palestinians.
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Re:Google's Open Culture Collides with the Israel-Hamas War by nailer on Thursday November 09, 2023 @03:25AM (#38202442)
Be more specific. I can’t respond if you can’t identify what is false.
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Re:Google's Open Culture Collides with the Israel-Hamas War by Qem on Thursday November 09, 2023 @05:43AM (#38203335)
It's all documented in a Human Rights Watch report: https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/04/27/threshold-crossed/isra...
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Re:Google's Open Culture Collides with the Israel-Hamas War by nailer on Thursday November 09, 2023 @10:13AM (#38206008)
You're not the person I was speaking to, and that report seems off topic, talking about arabs outside Israel, who, like anyone outside any country, obviously does not have the same rights in the country as the country's own citizens.
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Re:Google's Open Culture Collides with the Israel-Hamas War by nikolay on Thursday November 09, 2023 @01:10PM (#38208519)
Just ask the Arabs in Israel if they feel like first-class citizens. Any connection with Arab countries and Arab ethnicities makes you a target of systemic discrimination.
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Re:Google's Open Culture Collides with the Israel-Hamas War by nailer on Thursday November 09, 2023 @02:06PM (#38209411)
I have. They say sure there’s discrimination (individual rather than systemic), but they also have better lives than anywhere else in the middle east, and that other arabs like to pretend they don’t exist.
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Re:Google's Open Culture Collides with the Israel-Hamas War by nikolay on Thursday November 09, 2023 @10:10PM (#38214640)
"Better" in which way?
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Re:Google's Open Culture Collides with the Israel-Hamas War by nailer on Friday November 10, 2023 @11:57AM (#38221235)
Israeli arabs can vote, run for office, don't have issues with sectarian violence, leave Islam without the threat of violence, have sex sex relationships without the threat of violence, there's no extended royal family that are allowed to impose their will on others. Compare to the UAE, Qatar, or Gaza.
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Re:Google's Open Culture Collides with the Israel-Hamas War by nikolay on Sunday November 12, 2023 @08:52PM (#38246008)
Most Palestinians are Arabs, too. Why are they treated differently?
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Re:Google's Open Culture Collides with the Israel-Hamas War by nailer on Monday November 13, 2023 @06:19AM (#38249054)
Same reason that French people don’t have equivalent rights to British people in Britain.
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Re:Google's Open Culture Collides with the Israel-Hamas War by nikolay on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @09:41PM (#38285325)
It's not the same. Before 1948, even Jews in Palestine had Palestinian passports. They were all Palestinians. Jews were Palestinian Jews, and there were Jews all around the Middle East and Africa.
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Re:Google's Open Culture Collides with the Israel-Hamas War by poisonarena on Sunday November 12, 2023 @05:43PM (#38244872)
thats absolutely false, I have lived in haifa for years and nearly all my friends are arabs and druze.. they have the exact same rights as I do, only they dont have to go to the army (though some choose to !)
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